The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-05-19
MINNESOTA.

The portion of Osakis, burned last JAN
uary is being rapidly rebuilt.
Thirty 1.-TWO Mankato saloons have taken
out licenses for May and June.
Christian Peterson, an incorrigble Red
Wing, youth, has been sent to the reform
school.
Serious prairie fires are reported from
the townships of Getty and Grove, Stearns
County.
Flint Brothers furniture factory at
Faribault, burned on the 10th. Loss s., 900:
no insurance.
At Hastings on the morning of April 80,
several persons were stunned by lightning
but none seriously injured.
The Red Wing Stoneware Company is
burning . Kiln Of stoneware with crude coal
oil. The company are putting in founda-
ton for large warehouse.
The premises at Saltwater, known as the
Staples foundry, were destroyed by fire on
the evening of the 10th. Loss on machinery
and unfinished work 80, 800, on buildings
10000. Insurance Si2.JOJ.
Crop reports from 1a5 counties Gin Mime
sofa, Dakota and Iowa show that seeding
through the Northwest has been completed.
With favorable weather, the crops har-
vested next fall in Minnesota and Dakota
will be unprecedented.
Forest fires have done large damage along
the Mississippi river from Brainerdl toward
Aitkin. The Northwestern Lumber Com
pany Of Minneapolis and G. S. Garfield Of
Brainerd are heavy losers. Some of the
homesteaders have suffered considerably.
Fire at Ortonville, on the afternoon OF the
18th destroyed Engquist's pillow factory, the
Godfrey house barn, por ton of the
Charles Be:cher lumber yard and several
Outbuildings. The loss is $4,000 and in
surance $500. The city had very narrow
escape
At st. Paul. on the 10th, Bertha Hegener
and Charles Hegener of Minneapolis pleaded
not guilty to an indictment for man.
slaughter in the first-degree, for the killing
of John Murphy, the former as principal
and the latter as accessory before Cthe fact.
Bail was continued in $1,000.
The minneapolis and st. Louis railway
blacksmithsand repair shops at Minneapolis,
were destroyed by fire on the night of the
18th, cau-ing a loss of $4,000 to $4,000.
Three other small fires occurred in tho
same city during that night, but the
damage was slight.
John II. Lynch, . farmer living eight
miles from Rochester, Olmsted County.
fell from tho top of his windmill, striking
his head on Q milk chest, crushing his skull,
| and causing death. His wife, who wit
| messed his fall, went into Mysteries, and
lies In precarious condition.
The city of Crookston had . narrow
escape from havoc by prairie fire, on the It'll
A barn in the southeast approach to tho
| main part Of the town was burned the
cinders carried an immense distance by the
gale OF wind, but the fire department and
| citizens made successful fight against the
| element.
Clearwater, on the night of May s,
burglars entered at the back window of
3. NJ. Phillips drug store, blew open the
safe with powder and carried of about
| $l,OOO IN money and jewelry. The work
showed the hand Of q professional. The
plate was drilled by the use of a common
bit stock, taken from q neighboring wagon
shop, and q fine drill.
A letter has been received at st. Paul,
announcing the death of John D. Martin,
| who was tried and acquitted at the last
term of the Ramsey district court, for the
murder Of Buck Moore at the Minnesota
Transfer. The death occurred at the house
| Of q cousin, at Plattsmouth, Neb, small
town near Omaha, and the immediate
cause was infammatory rheumatism
At Milwaukee, on the 9th, John Bauer,
. carpenter sixty-six years of age,
committed suicide by tying one end of q
stout cord around q bed post and the other
around his neck, and then rolling of the
bed and choking himself to death. Des-
pondency, growing out chargin at his ar
rest two weeks ago for petty offense, was
the cause. Bauer had made an unsuccess-
full attempt at suicide by cutting his throat
three years ago. He was q divorced man
and had no children.
Red Wing, Pennington, Hastings and
Shakopee were considered by the Commits
sion to select q site for the Reform School
on its removal from st. Paul On the 18th,
The Commission decided Upop ate ct Red